Postmodern architecture in socialist Poland : transformation, symbolic form and national identity /

Garish churches, gabled slab blocks, neo-historical tenements. This book is about these and other architectural oddities that one would not expect under an authoritarian socialist regime. It is about the committed individuals that rendered them possible in spite of repressive politics and persistent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Urban, Florian (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, [2021]
Series:	Architext.
Subjects:	Architecture and society > Poland > History > 20th century. Architecture, Postmodern > Poland. Communism and architecture > Poland.

Table of Contents:

Architectural debates in late socialist Poland
Churches, semiotics and patriotism
Bottom-up village churches
Postmodern mass housing complexes
Postmodernism from the spirit of historic conservation : the new old town of Elbląg
The urban context.